Good! And good luck with that. I think Brazil made noises like this for a short time some years ago. I don't think it went anywhere but it is clearly the sane

Good! And good luck with that. I think Brazil made noises like this for a short time some years ago. I don't think it went anywhere but it is clearly the sane ideal, and is just a failing that we don't have it. A normal failing like countless others, bit still a failing. To me it never made sense for any public facilities to rely on anything the public couldn't at least audit, let alone modify to remove any artificial private-serving restrictions like undocumented file formats and artificial lack of inteteroperability with other software and old versions of the same software etc. Maybe eventually this will be a thing, but will probably take forever. Assuming this doesn't really stick long term, at least it seems that very gradually, more municipalities are trying. Sooner or later maybe it will start to stick, maybe only in some smaller places at first that can get away with being opinionated and principled, and too small for MS and Oracle to fight too hard over. But those may beget a few others. Maybe once tiny town down the road does it, slightly larger town realizes they could too. And then maybe you have a world where say 2% of public official things don't use Office or Oracle etc. That starts to make it important for everyone else to support agnostic compatibility as a real thing they actually have to support instead of just forcing all their users to use Edge or Chrome or Office etc. And once that starts to happen, once most services and products actually work with firefox and libreoffice etc, it makes it less crazy and unimaginable for some larger less hippy idealist municipalities to actually consider the principled argument. They have less ammo to shoot it down.